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Rigged Excel documents making the rounds

2008-03-12 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b88dec in Network World on Security
 
Security experts have warned that malicious Microsoft Excel documents are making the rounds via e-mail, exploiting an unpatched Excel vulnerability that has been known publicly since January
 
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Personal Las Cruces Public Schools Special Ed information posted online

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2008-05-09 10:02:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Rounds Reference URL LCPS news release (Word document download LCPS press conference (Word document download Las Cruces Sun-News Report Credit Las Cruces Public Schools Response From the online sources cited above LAS CRUCES - The Las Cruces Public Schools has announced that confidential student and staff information, including some...
 
Tags: information, lcps, lcps employees, special education students, lcps press conference, special education, specific information, data security, data
 
 
 
 
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Stolen laptop contained Centocor speaker-consultant information

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2008-01-29 11:08:47 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Rounds on the Road Speakers programs Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Name, home of business city and state, and Social Security number/Tax Identification Number Breach Description Several computers are missing from Centocor facilities in Horsham, Pennsylvania, of which one contained sensitive personal information belonging to...
 
Tags: centocor, information, evan centocor, evan, time centocor, centocor facilities, facilities, centocor laptops, laptops
 
 
 
 
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In Next-Gen Bullets and Bombs, Even the Casing Explodes

2008-05-07 01:00:00 by David Hambling in Wired Security
 
...rounds out of the sky like flies You can get effects that are more precisely tailored to a particular target," says John Pike, director of Washington military research group GlobalSecurity.org . "And you're able to get a greater effect out of a smaller munition Reactive materials are combinations of materials that are normally stable, but,...
 
Tags: amounts, release explosive amounts, release, metal, hollow metal cone, explosive, energy, reliably release energy, metal liner
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Detroit Update, Home Network-Fi, Piggyback-Fi, PHL Free-Fi

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2008-06-16 11:21:48 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...rounds up free and fee Wi-Fi efforts around it: The city and its suburban and exurban surroundings could use more broadband, but Wi-Fi has arrived only slowly as an option. It hasn't disappeared outright, and it's made inroads in some places. The project to unwire Oakland County is on hold as even though the county and cities secured pole...
 
Tags: free, wi-fi, wi-fi steals hash, free wi-fi, wi-fi network setup, home, networks, personal networks, fee wi-fi efforts
 
 
 
 
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The Skein Hash Function

2008-10-29 04:35:29 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...rounds, for a safety factor of 2.9. For comparison, at a similar stage in the standardization process, the AES encryption algorithm had an attack on 6 of 10 rounds, for a safety factor of only 1.7. Additionally, Skein has a number of provably secure properties, greatly increasing confidence in the algorithm Skein is simple. Using only three...
 
Tags: skein, hash function, function, implement skein-256, implement, skein hashes data, skein website, hashes data, key derivation function
 
 
 
 
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Playing With Homemade Explosives

2007-08-07 17:30:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...rounds (regular bullets do nothing, you need an incendiary round My experiments always started with small trial runs. The simple process I employed had numerous benefits, such as teaching me how to construct proper firebreaks, that gravel roads dont burn but they do throw significant amounts of shrapnel, and why the military loves foxholes...
 
Tags: gas, lawn mowers gas, tank, cars gas tank, time, time delay fuse, terrorist, empty gas, recent terrorist plots
 
 
 
 
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NSA Backdoors in Crypto AG Ciphering Machines

2008-01-11 06:51:20 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...rounds in European newspapers some years ago -- mostly stories in German, if I remember -- but it wasn't covered much here in the U.S. For half a century, Crypto AG, a Swiss company located in Zug, has sold to more than 100 countries the encryption machines their officials rely upon to exchange their most sensitive economic, diplomatic and...
 
Tags: crypto, machines, company, swiss company, company web site, century, 20th century version, military messages, countries
 
 
 
 
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E-crime and Socioeconomic Factors

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2008-01-21 07:49:29 by HASH0x8b5217c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...rounds online, but how is this possible since the people behind it are no longer able to update it? To achieve immortality for Pinch, they've released it as open source tool, namely anyone can use its successful foundation for any other upcoming innovation. The original coders are gone, the "malware generators" and the "compilers" are...
 
Tags: malware, code malware, modern malware, malware generators, source tool, source, malware bot, source malware bots, e-crime
 
 
 
 
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Thieves steal four Diocese of Providence computers

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2008-02-04 08:48:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...rounds (~ once every hour or two) throughout the area being guarded. Eight hours is a long time for a break-in to go undetected, so an alarm system would have been very beneficial as an alert if not a deterrent One of the stolen computers (a desktop computer, not a laptop) contained a substantial amount of data that included personnel...
 
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